SARS-CoV-2 Transmission in Patients With Cancer at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Wuhan, China

Because Choosing Wisely guidelines are against the provision of systemic chemotherapy for patients with terminalstage cancer, 5 the decreased chemotherapy utilization in hospices may be appropriate. However, the dramatic reductions in radiotherapy expenses and in the proportion of hospices providing radiotherapy are alarming. Our findings highlight the concern that patients with cancer in recent years might have postponed enrolling in hospice until the very end of life so that they could continue to receive palliative treatments. 6 Our analyses have several limitations. Our findings, limited to freestanding hospices, cannot be generalized to hospitalaffiliated hospices. Because of data constraints, we could…

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  Genentech
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  Medical Research Council
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  National Medical Research Council

  Award: CSA/0027/2018